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Snowflake Scrivener (active circa 1871-1901)

Decorator

Unknown

Accession Number

PAG2004.001

Date Range

1877-1878

Description

Printed Taufschein with angels facing forward at sides, pair of birds on branch in bottom corners, cherub reclining on cloud at top center.

Dimensions in Inches

16 1/2 x 13

Dimensions in Centimeters

42 x 33

Materials

Watercolor and ink on paper

Technique

Drawn, Hand lettered

Print Shop Location

Reading, Pennsylvania

Associated Places

Lower Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Category

Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)

Motifs

angels, horns, clouds, books, robins

Associated Names

Georg Miller, Lise Ann Trump, Anna Macora, William Rath, William Schoenle, Sarah Schoenle

Rights

Please contact the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College for permissions which fall outside of educational fair use.

Source

Ursinus College Library Special Collections and the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art

Provenance

Pennsylvania Folklife Society

Script/Text

Fraktur lettering, German script

Language

German

Transcription

Wenn wir kaum gebohren werden,/Ist, vom ersten Lebenstritt,/Bis zum kühlen Grab der Erden,/Nur ein kurzgemeß’ner Schritt./Ach! mit jedem Augenblick/Gehet uns’re Kraft zurück./Und wir sind mit jedem Jahre,/Allzureif zur Todtenbahre.

Und wer weiß, in welcher Stunde,/Uns die letzte Stimme weckt,/Denn Gott hat’s mit seinem Munde/Keinem Menschen noch entdeckt./Wer sein Haus nun wohl bestellt,/Geht mit Freuden aus der Welt;/Da die Sicherheit hingegen,/Ewig’s Sterben kann erregen.

Geburts=und Taufschein./Den Ehegatten,/Georg Miller/und seiner Frau Lise Ann/eine geborne Trump/ist ein Mädchen geboren worden, den 25ten Tag /März im Jahr unsers Herrn 1874/Diese Tochter wurde geboren in Lower Milford/Taunschip Lecha Caunty, im Staat Pennsylvania, in/Nord Amerika, und wurde am 2ten Tag Juni/im Jahr unsers Herrn 1878 von dem Ehrw./Pastor William Rath/getauft, und erhielt den Namen Anna Macora/Die Tauf=Zeugen waren:/William Schoenke und seine/Frau Sarah

Ich bin getauft, ich steh’ im Bunde,/Durch meine Tauf, mit meinem Gott!/So sprech’ ich stets mit frohem Munde,/In Kreuz, in Trübsal, Angst u. Noth,/Ich bin getauft, des freu’ ich mich,/Die Freude bleibt mir ewiglich.

Ich bin getauft, ob ich gleich sterbe,/Was schadet mir das kühle Grab?/Ich weiß mein Varterland und Erbe,/Das ich bey Gott im Himmel hab’./Nach meinem Tod ist mir bereit,/Des Himmels Freud’ und Feyerkleid.

Ich bin gezählt zu Deinem Saamen,/Gott Vater, Sohn und heil’ger Geist!/Ich bin getauft in Deinem Namen,

Zum Volk, das Dir geheiligt heißt./O! welch’ ein Glück wird dadurch mein!/Herr, laß mich deßen würdig seyn!

Gedruckt und zu haben an dem “Eagle” Buchstohr./542 Penn Straße, Reading, Pa.

Translation

When we are just born…

Birth and Baptismal Certificate. To both of these spouses, Georg Miller and his wife Lise Ann a born Trump was a little girl born, the 25th day of March in the year of our Lord 1874. This daughter was born in Lower Milford Township Lehigh County, in the state of Pennsylvania, in North America, and was baptized on the 2nd day of June in the year of our Lord 1878 by the Reverend Pastor William Rath, and received the name Anna Macora. The baptismal sponsors were William Schoenke and his wife Sarah.

I was baptized, I stand in the union…

I was baptized, if I die immediately…

I was counted among your seed…

Printed and for sale at the Eagle Bookstore. 542 Penn Street, Reading, Pa.

Comment

The Snowflake scrivener is named after the pink snowflake-like designs he sometimes included on pieces. He also added a tiny circle in his writing as an attempt to copy the printed font used by the Eagle bookstore, which has a tiny circle about halfway on the vertical section.

Condition

Good

Bibliographical Reference

Stopp #719.2

Published

Stopp, Klaus. The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans. 6 vols. (Mainz, Germany, and East Berlin, Pa.: privately published, 1997–99). vol. 4: 241.

File Format

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Type

image

Keywords

fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, taufschein

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